A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Hebrides-2 Mendelssohn classics in Eulenburg Study Score format complete with high quality NAXOS recordings.
SKU: BR.SON-423
ISBN 9790004802656. 9 x 12 inches.
It is significant that the highly self-critical Mendelssohn could envision if at all only four-hand piano arrangements of his Concert Overtures nos. 2, 3 and 4. He made it clear to the publisher Breitkopf & Hartel that a two-hand version would find no admirers. Since Mendelssohn made his own arrangements of the Hebrides Overture (op. 26) and the Overture zur schoenen Melusine (op. 32), this gives the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition the opportunity to bring out a slender supplementary volume to the orchestral scores of the four Concert Overtures (LMA I/8).
SKU: BR.OB-5623-23
ISBN 9790004348758. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Certainly Robert Schumann was right when he stated soon after Beethoven's death that the latter's conception of the symphony as a great, universal confessional work was hardly to be continued by the next generation of composers. He saw a solution to the dilemma in the creation of autonomous concert overtures, such as those written, for instance, by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Four of his overtures were printed during his lifetime, and others were extant in manuscript, though frequently and successfully performed by the composer. Belonging to the latter group is the Trumpet Overture, begun in 1825 and performed three times between 1828 und 1833 on prominent occasions in Berlin, Dusseldorf, and London.First printing posthumously 1851 (Rietz).
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ISBN 9790004348741. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004348772. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004348765. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004348727. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004348734. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004215203. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-428
ISBN 9790004802878. 9 x 12 inches.
Mendelssohn wrote his piano-vocal score to Elijah in view of a parallel publication in England and Germany and he did so right after the world premiere, at a time when he was planning to subject the work to a thorough revision. The piano reduction, which actually did appear simultaneously in both countries in 1847, is thus of exceptional value as a source and reflects the revision process of the entire work. Moreover, the volume from the Complete Edition also contains two further piano arrangements from the masters hand: the Elijah Overture for piano four-hands and the well-known aria Hoere, Israel. Mendelssohn had penned the latter piece separately for soprano and piano, possibly as a gift for Jenny Lind or another singer whom he held in high esteem.Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2023.
SKU: HL.48187718
UPC: 888680864095. 5.5x7.5 inches.
Felix Jacob Ludwig Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Overture from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (PH115) (Orchestra).
SKU: BR.OB-5624-30
ISBN 9790004348710. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The Overture to Ruy Blas, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's last overture, was not composed as an autonomously conceived score, but as the opening piece of a stage work. Nevertheless, its immediate success at the Leipzig first performance in 1839, as well as the fact that no further contributions to Victor Hugo's drama followed from Mendelssohn's pen soon made it well known in the concert hall. The work's special history, including several arrangements occasioned by various performances, led to the fact that the overture had its largest circulation in the version of the posthumous first edition on which this edition is also based.First printing posthumously 1851 (Rietz).
SKU: BR.OB-5624-16
ISBN 9790004348673. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004348666. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-5624
ISBN 9790004215210. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The Overture to Ruy Blas, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's last overture, was not composed as an autonomously conceived score, but as the opening piece of a stage work. Nevertheless, its immediate success at the Leipzig first performance in 1839, as well as the fact that no further contributions to Victor Hugo's drama followed from Mendelssohn's pen soon made it well known in the concert hall. The work's special history, including several arrangements occasioned by various performances, led to the fact that the overture had its largest circulation in the version of the posthumous first edition on which this edition is also based.